Health & Medicine
Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Viewpoint: Glyphosate may be hazardous, but it is not dangerous as used by farmers. Critics of the Supreme Court’s Roundup ruling garble hazard with risk
... In epidemiology, causation is usually a population-level inference. Researchers ask whether an exposure reliably changes disease risk across groups of ...
Viewpoint—Junk science: How predatory mass tort lawyers twist facts, scare the public about phantom chemical risks, and cash in on billion-dollar settlements
Too many mass tort litigations are being resolved based on so-called “expert” testimony that is, in reality, less than reliable ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Legalized weed drives drug addiction, psychosis?
Drug legalization is supposed to spur several critical improvements in public health. As more states legalize recreational marijuana, we're beginning ...
Celebrities flock to Mexico for for expensive anti-aging stem cell injections despite no evidence that it works
Celebrities are jetting out of the country in search of a pricey anti-aging craze that many claim is helping them ...
Miracle cure or medical mirage? As scientists strip away the hype over psychedelic therapy, evidence of the benefits fades.
Over the last decade, we’ve seen scientific interest in these drugs explode. But most clinical trials of psychedelics have been small ...
Viewpoint: Disinformation grift: The wellness industry is a lucrative and mostly worthless marketplace of ‘balms, brews, and baloney’
Wellness used to mean getting your vitamins from food and eliminating waste in a toilet. Today it means supplements, colonics, ...
Blocked by Kennedy’s CDC, validated by peer-reviewed scientists: Suppressed COVID vaccine study published in JAMA finds 50% risk cut
A covid vaccine study that the CDC’s chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published [on June 23, 2026] ...
Viewpoint: Which is worse: Trace PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ on strawberries or the fear that scares people away from eating them?
A wellness blog called Mamavation had a lab test two containers of Driscoll’s from a single store on a single ...
Viewpoint: From magnetizing your head to taking useless supplements, the wellness craze has morphed into an obsession of the affluent
The health world is awash with what is sometimes referred to, a bit too politely in my opinion, as “woo”; ...
From printers to pigs: The precarious future of organ transplants
At any given time, the US transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Even with a record 41,356 transplants ...
Even in blue states, hospitals have continued to drop gender-affirming care for youths
One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who ...
Viewpoint: Appreciating a simpler past without swallowing the misleading ‘nature is healthier and safer’ myth
There is a woman who lives on my For You page. She has wild curly hair and a wardrobe of ...
Viewpoint: The facts behind the grifter-promoting wellness and anti-aging peptide craze: Don’t waste your money
The wellness craze of the moment. Peptides themselves are just short chains of amino acids, the same building blocks that ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s vaccine subterfuge campaign now flies below the media radar
In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention halted the publication of a study showing that last year’s covid-19 ...
How the dubious, Trump-backed, addictive drug kratom could enrich cabinet secretary Markwayne Mullin
Sold in gas stations across America, kratom has been linked to liver toxicity, seizures and thousands of deaths. Powerful figures ...
Is cellular reprogramming junk science? Nearly 20 patients are getting eye injections in the first FDA-cleared cellular trial
It's a pivotal moment for longevity science, the first opportunity for researchers to prove that epigenetic reprogramming — a technique ...
Why the human genome is less a script than a puzzle
It’s now clear that understanding the human genome is no longer a matter of figuring out what each gene does ...
Leading OB-GYN group challenges RFK, Jr. gutting of maternal vaccine schedule
The leading professional organization for obstetricians and gynecologists in the US has launched its first maternal vaccination schedule and diverged ...
No, Bill Gates did not secretly engineer ticks to promote veganism
"WEAPONIZED TICKS ARE HERE -- AND IT'S NO ACCIDENT! Genetically modified ticks are exploding across America, triggering Alpha-Gal Syndrome," claims a May ...
America’s trust in Trump-Kennedy’s CDC health recommendations is plunging
More than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, poll findings released on [June 9, 2026] showed that trust in federal ...
Glyphosate affirmed as safe: Supreme Court rejects lawsuit claiming Roundup herbicide causes cancer, upholding EPA determination
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Monsanto in a high-stakes dispute over cancer warnings on pesticide labels. In an ...
Hegseth reversal: As Air Force flu outbreak continues to surge, military reinstitutes mandatory vaccines for recruits
A flu outbreak at the Air Force's basic training hub in San Antonio is worsening, according to two sources familiar ...
Desperate patients of autistic children paying up to $20,000 for bogus stem cell injections recommended by RFK, Jr.
Autistic children as young as 18 months old are being injected with human stem cells derived from umbilical cords in ...
Anguished parents, doctors in tears: Utah’s long measles outbreak takes a toll
Ben Dowse hadn’t expected to treat measles when he became a doctor, but there he was, examining a newborn exposed ...
After Mel Gibson’s Joe Rogan comments, grifters promoting ivermectin, without evidence, as a hantavirus preventive
"Hantavirus is a RNA virus, and ivermectin should work against it," claims a May 6, 2026 post on X from Mary Talley ...
AI’s promotion of ‘fake news’ erodes everyday thinking, MIT study reveals
Yet another study shows that the more you let artificial intelligence do the thinking for you, the less capable you ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. ignores oversight of vast HHS programs to focus on his pet obsessions—and gets much of the science wrong
Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, ...
